With the cooperation of the cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, the Borough of East York, the UN Association, TDN, Now Rooz Cultural Foundation and Science for Peace.

On Deterrence

Excerpts From The American Methodist Bishops’ Pastoral Letter:

“We have concluded that nuclear de­terrence is a position which cannot receive the church’s blessing.

“Nuclear deterrence has become a dogmatic license for perpetual hosti­lity between the superpowers and for their rigid resistance to significant measures of disarmament.

“Nuclear deterrence has too long been reverenced as the idol of national security. In its most idola­trous forms it has blinded its propon­ents to the many-sided requirements of genuine security.

“Justice is offended by the double standard under which some nations pre­sume nuclear weapons for themselves while denying them to others. Justice is defiled by the superpowers’ impli – cation in conventional arms races and proxy wars in the third world, causing much present suffering and threatening escalation into a nuclear war.”